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For founder-led & growing businesses

A bad hire isn’t always a bad person.
Sometimes it’s a badly designed role.

Better-built roles. Stronger hires. Stronger businesses. We help you understand the need, define the work and find the right person.

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Three ways to work together

List. Recruit. Build.

01 / Vacancy advertising

List

For employers who already know exactly who they need.

  • Vacancy listing
  • Talent Desk application page
  • Candidate application infrastructure
  • Agreed vacancy visibility and distribution
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02 / Managed recruitment

Recruit

You know the need. We manage the search and selection.

  • Role briefing and vacancy development
  • Candidate sourcing and application management
  • Structured screening and interview support
  • Shortlist
  • Appropriate verification and reference process
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03 / Systems-led hiring

Build

For hires where finding the right person isn’t enough — the role and structure need designing too.

  • Relevant elements of managed recruitment
  • Role design and role scorecard
  • Responsibilities, authority and success measures
  • Onboarding and reporting structure
  • 30/60/90-day and probation framework
  • Manager check-in framework
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Services and scope vary by assignment. We agree the work, pricing and responsibilities before proceeding.

Start with the need

What is this hire
here to solve?

Sometimes the problem isn’t a lack of good people.

Responsibilities overlap. Nobody clearly owns the work. Everything still comes back to the founder. A previous hire struggled. Reporting is inconsistent. Or the business has simply grown beyond the way the work was originally organised.

Before recruiting, we look at why the role needs to exist, what the person should own and what success should look like.

The Talent Desk Method

Build the role.
Then find the fit.

A practical approach for founder-led and growing businesses — from understanding the need behind the hire to building the structure that helps the right person succeed.

Diagnose Design Select Verify Embed Review
01

Diagnose

Understand the need.

We look at why the role exists, what problem the hire needs to solve and what success should look like.

02

Design

Build the role.

Clarify ownership, responsibilities, authority, boundaries, reporting and the outcomes expected from the role.

03

Select

Find evidence of fit.

Use structured, role-relevant screening, interviews and practical assessment where appropriate.

04

Verify

Check what matters.

Confirm relevant experience, references, qualifications, licences or other requirements appropriate to the role.

05

Embed

Set the hire up to work.

Where included in the assignment, establish the role clarity, onboarding, reporting and probation structure needed for a strong start.

06

Review

Check the person and the system.

Where included, review progress against the role’s outcomes and identify unclear expectations, missing support or structural issues affecting performance.

Tell us what isn’t working.

You don’t need a finished job description to start the conversation.

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